Andrea Higgins American, b. 1970
Willow, 2018
oil on linen
30 x 21 in
76.2 x 53.3 cm
76.2 x 53.3 cm
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"Father told me that in the spring the ladies at court wore a set of white robes with green linings in a color combination called Willow. He said he saw it done once where the green in each layer was dyed progressively darker. The edge of lining showing at the innermost layer was etiolated, sun-starved paleness that could be only recognized as green because it lay next to white. The linings of the robe became successively greener, like a new shoot reaching out from the shadows into the spring sun.”
—Liza Dalby, The Tale of Murasaki (p. 40)
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